This area of over 10,000 acres was original purchased in 1910 by the late Bertha Honore Palmer, a wealthy socialite business woman from Chicago. Mrs. Palmer used the area for orange groves and cattle farming. Today only a few heads of cattle remain in some still left farming pastures. This farming area has now become what they call a master planned community of 30 different neighborhoods and communities.

Palmer Ranch homes encompass a variety of styles of living from large estate homes, to condominium living, to family neighborhoods, to country club living, to maintenance free villas and maintenance free single family homes and gated communities throughout all of the neighborhoods of Palmer Ranch.